chesterfieldean

Updated: May 17, 2025

Mr Root was trying with a forty Chesterfieldean power to look amiable. Mrs Root was very fidgety. As I appeared at the door timorously, the lady said to me, without rising, but extending her delicate white hand, "Come here to me, Ralph; do you not know me?" I could get no further than the middle of the room, where I stood still, and burst out into a passion of tears.

Edward Howard - Rattlin the Reefer